10 Douglas Drive, Shirley, Croydon
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10 Douglas Drive, Shirley, Croydon
Image: © Dave Hilliam Taken: 10 Apr 1938
No 10 Douglas Drive Shirley in 1938. Then a brand new Gower Type B house costing £785 new, when my father purchased it. Built on the Spring Park Estate in Shirley, Douglas Drive was then a Cul-de-sac and, in the photo, has not yet been made up. All the houses in the Drive survived WW2, No 6 being requisitioned by Canadian forces prior to D Day. I was born in the back bedroom of No 10 in 1942.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.370586
Longitude
-0.032366